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INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

The Career Options Resource Center (CORC) supports students and alumni in exploring career ideas and developing the self-knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to find their place in the world of work. An overview of what we do and how we do it is in our Mission Statement

How Can You Help?

As a parent, you have enormous influence upon your student's career thoughts and decisions. Your involvement in the following ways can help your student in the career development process:

  • Visit CORC when you come to campus, and advise your student to check out our user-friendly career center on the 3rd floor of the Johnson Library. Our staff loves to have students, alumni, parents, and friends drop in to ask about our resources.
  • Suggest that your student (even first years) make an appointment with a CORC career counselor. It's advantageous for students to get an early start on thinking about potential connections between their academic studies and work.
  • Recognize that your student's academic concentration alone may not clearly define a career path. Career choices are influenced by interests, skills, and values that emerge from academic courses, volunteer activities, internships and work experiences.
  • Help your student cultivate networking skills by suggesting names of friends, neighbors, relatives, business associates, and community contacts for an information interview
  • Encourage your student to try out career ideas through short-term work experiences such as internships, summer jobs, or volunteering.
  • Many students feel a lot of pressure to make the "right" career or graduate school choice, fearing that a misstep could hinder them. Reassure your student that any decisions made at this stage in life are not irreversible and that experimentation is a normal part of the career development process.
    See the links at left for more about what CORC does and how you can help guide your student through the career development process. Thanks for visiting this site!

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    Contact Us

    Career Options Resource Center
    Harold Johnson Library
    Hampshire College
    893 West Street
    Amherst, MA 01002
    413.559.5445
    Fax 413.559.6148
    corc@hampshire.edu
     

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